Dynamic-adaptive client-side image map
US6978418B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Apr 13, 1999 |
| Grant date | Dec 20, 2005 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 13, 2019 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F16/957
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method and system for associating active regions with positions within displayed images in a device and display independent manner. Active regions are described by client-side image maps include in hyper-text markup language descriptions of web pages that include specifications of images to be displayed within the web pages. The specifications of images and descriptions of client-side image maps are replaced by servers with a parameterized call to an image viewer, invoked by a browser on a client computer to display the image. The browser maintains an internal description of the positions of active regions in image-relative coordinates, thereby providing dynamic viewing of web pages that include images with associated active regions while maintaining the originally-defined correspondence between the active regions and images.
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